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Site name Obadiah's Barrow, Gugh 1, H5, D1

Site number 2

Burial codes 5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5046 5052 5065 5075 5084 5097 5101 5111 5112 5128 5151 5155 5159 5181 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4041 4047 4052 4065 4075 4081 4085 4094 4097 4104 4111 4123 4155 4159 4161 4181

3500bc - 2500bc Chambered barrow oriented SE, with broken pottery outside the entrance. In hard blackish soil on the paved chamber floor was a contracted male skeleton, the first Neolithic burial in the tomb.

2500bc-14/1300bc Covering the earlier interment, about a dozen broken biconical urns were set in the hard blackish soil of the primary interment, 6 of which had been inverted covering burnt human remains. Only one barrel urn was still intact, protected by a stone at the edge of the chamber. One cremation with its broken urn was set on a stone slab in the middle of the chamber, six others being arranged around it, then towards the entrance came a compound of tipped in broken pottery, burnt bone and charcoal. A 'point of copper or bronze much oxidised was found' close by the stone slab (an awl). This proved to be bronze very poor in tin. A hammer stone was found in the middle of the chamber towards the entrance. Three bone points were also found, location unclear.

Remains/Period Y5 Y4

County Scilly

Region SW

National grid square SV

X coordinate 888

Y coordinate 85

Bibliographic source Hencken 1933a, Ashbee 1974, 1982

Query

Site name	Obadiah's Barrow, Gugh 1, H5, D1
Site number	2
Burial codes	5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5046 5052 5065 5075 5084 5097 5101 5111 5112 5128 5151 5155 5159 5181 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4041 4047 4052 4065 4075 4081 4085 4094 4097 4104 4111 4123 4155 4159 4161 4181
3500bc - 2500bc	Chambered barrow oriented SE, with broken pottery outside the entrance. In hard blackish soil on the paved chamber floor was a contracted male skeleton, the first Neolithic burial in the tomb.
2500bc-14/1300bc	Covering the earlier interment, about a dozen broken biconical urns were set in the hard blackish soil of the primary interment, 6 of which had been inverted covering burnt human remains. Only one barrel urn was still intact, protected by a stone at the edge of the chamber. One cremation with its broken urn was set on a stone slab in the middle of the chamber, six others being arranged around it, then towards the entrance came a compound of tipped in broken pottery, burnt bone and charcoal. A 'point of copper or bronze much oxidised was found' close by the stone slab (an awl). This proved to be bronze very poor in tin. A hammer stone was found in the middle of the chamber towards the entrance. Three bone points were also found, location unclear.
Remains/Period	Y5 Y4
County	Scilly
Region	SW
National grid square	SV
X coordinate	888
Y coordinate	85
Bibliographic source	Hencken 1933a, Ashbee 1974, 1982